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Originally Posted by naskies
Glad to hear you have success. I've tried AT a couple of times and never had any luck to get it work correctly - it just spends forever trying to plate solve. Any tips?
PinPoint LE (included with MaximDL) works brilliantly for me, provided the reference coordinates are reasonably close. I liked MaxPoint's ability to build a pointing model for the whole sky, but I think it's designed for higher end mounts than the typical EQ6 - every target lands on chip, but it's about ~ 10 arc min out for me.
EQMOD's N-point model, however, works well for me - provided there's a nearby triangle, most of my targets land within arc secs (or 1-2 arc mins) of centre. Having a script that can automatically slew / plate solve / sync (ala MaxPoint's automap feature) using just AT and EQMOD would be great.
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How are you with VB.NET Dave? I've got some code for this in my drift alignment program if of any interest. Ironically I wrote this to do a Maxpoint type "brute force" maths versus mechanical weakness approach for my HEQ5Pro, but ended up understanding how to align my mount better and use EQMOD pier-side syncs such that a few sync points and plate solving are all I need. From memory set it up to map about 20 point each side of the pier. From memory the trickiest bit was using astrometry routines to issue alt/az slew commands (which EQMOD doesn't natively recognise- have to convert to RA/DEC before slew).
Heck, that was a lot of waffle. Ignore if I missed the mark.....
